Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > South West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 134 149
Rank change year-on-year +76 +15 -11
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 375 141 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.10% 2.01% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.26% 2.25% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 256 104 136
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,750 £31,680
25th Percentile £41,239 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £50,625
90th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £64,875
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 8,796 6,256 7,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.28% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,885 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the South West

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire +50 118 £55,000 -0.90% 15
Wiltshire +42 115 £50,500 +16.09% 16
Bristol +22 47 £47,500 -24.00% 11
Dorset +3 38 £50,000 +5.26% 1
Somerset +21 34 £36,250 -23.68% 5
Devon -2 21 £41,206 -8.43% 6
Cornwall - 2 £36,750 -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 359 (95.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 179 (47.73%) Windows
3 161 (42.93%) Security Cleared
4 150 (40.00%) VMware
5 136 (36.27%) Linux
6 120 (32.00%) Azure
7 107 (28.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 104 (27.73%) Microsoft
9 101 (26.93%) PowerShell
10 91 (24.27%) DV Cleared
11 87 (23.20%) Active Directory
12 82 (21.87%) Microsoft 365
13 81 (21.60%) Windows Server
14 69 (18.40%) Hyper-V
15 67 (17.87%) SC Cleared
16 64 (17.07%) Ansible
17 60 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 58 (15.47%) Red Hat
19 57 (15.20%) DNS
19 57 (15.20%) Python
20 55 (14.67%) SaaS
20 55 (14.67%) Bash
21 52 (13.87%) Aerospace
22 49 (13.07%) AWS
23 48 (12.80%) Firewall
24 46 (12.27%) Docker
24 46 (12.27%) Kubernetes
24 46 (12.27%) Actionable Insight
25 44 (11.73%) Cisco
25 44 (11.73%) WAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 34 (9.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (1.33%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (1.07%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.53%) Confluence
5 2 (0.53%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.27%) Moodle
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.53%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 120 (32.00%) Azure
2 82 (21.87%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (14.67%) SaaS
4 49 (13.07%) AWS
5 42 (11.20%) OpenShift
6 31 (8.27%) Entra ID
7 18 (4.80%) IaaS
8 16 (4.27%) Power Platform
9 15 (4.00%) PaaS
10 13 (3.47%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.13%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.07%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.53%) Amazon S3
13 2 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.53%) Rubrik
13 2 (0.53%) Slack
14 1 (0.27%) Azure Storage
14 1 (0.27%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.20%) DNS
2 48 (12.80%) Firewall
3 44 (11.73%) DHCP
3 44 (11.73%) WAN
4 41 (10.93%) TCP/IP
5 36 (9.60%) HTTP
6 32 (8.53%) LAN
7 21 (5.60%) SAN
8 20 (5.33%) SD-WAN
8 20 (5.33%) Wireless
9 18 (4.80%) NAS
10 14 (3.73%) iSCSI
11 13 (3.47%) VPN
12 10 (2.67%) Fibre Channel
12 10 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (2.13%) Skype
14 7 (1.87%) WLAN
15 5 (1.33%) Internet
15 5 (1.33%) VLAN
15 5 (1.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.87%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.67%) Big Data
3 5 (1.33%) MySQL
4 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (0.53%) JIRA
1 2 (0.53%) MSI
2 1 (0.27%) GitLab
2 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (13.87%) Aerospace
2 40 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.87%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.07%) Finance
5 17 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.67%) Military
8 7 (1.87%) Retail
9 5 (1.33%) Legal
10 4 (1.07%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.07%) Automotive
10 4 (1.07%) Electronics
11 3 (0.80%) Social Housing
12 2 (0.53%) Advertising
12 2 (0.53%) Games
12 2 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.53%) Welsh Language
13 1 (0.27%) Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Law
13 1 (0.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.13%) JSON
2 6 (1.60%) JSON Schema
2 6 (1.60%) KML
2 6 (1.60%) Regular Expression
2 6 (1.60%) Software Packaging
2 6 (1.60%) XML
2 6 (1.60%) XML Schema
3 4 (1.07%) EJB
4 2 (0.53%) CSS
5 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.40%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.07%) Driving Licence
3 15 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.73%) EMC VNX
5 12 (3.20%) PKI
6 10 (2.67%) Cyber Defence
7 8 (2.13%) Fat Client
7 8 (2.13%) Replication
7 8 (2.13%) Thin Client
8 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.07%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.80%) Clustering
10 3 (0.80%) IBM Mainframe
10 3 (0.80%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.80%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.53%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.53%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.53%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 179 (47.73%) Windows
2 136 (36.27%) Linux
3 81 (21.60%) Windows Server
4 60 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (4.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.47%) Windows 10
7 13 (3.47%) Windows Server 2012
8 7 (1.87%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.33%) VMS
10 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.80%) CentOS
11 3 (0.80%) zOS
12 2 (0.53%) Android
12 2 (0.53%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.27%) AIX
13 1 (0.27%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (95.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (12.27%) Actionable Insight
3 42 (11.20%) DevOps
4 36 (9.60%) Software Architecture
5 35 (9.33%) Collaborative Working
6 33 (8.80%) ITIL
7 28 (7.47%) Mentoring
8 26 (6.93%) Agile
9 25 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (6.67%) Service Delivery
10 20 (5.33%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (4.53%) Service Management
12 16 (4.27%) Project Delivery
13 15 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (3.20%) Server Management
15 10 (2.67%) Business Continuity
15 10 (2.67%) Customer Service
15 10 (2.67%) ITSM
15 10 (2.67%) Software Testing
16 9 (2.40%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (26.93%) PowerShell
2 57 (15.20%) Python
3 55 (14.67%) Bash
4 36 (9.60%) Java
5 17 (4.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 161 (42.93%) Security Cleared
2 91 (24.27%) DV Cleared
3 67 (17.87%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.27%) Degree
5 12 (3.20%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.93%) CCNA
7 10 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.60%) CCNP
9 5 (1.33%) A+ Certification
9 5 (1.33%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.07%) MCSE
11 3 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.53%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.53%) CISSP
12 2 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.27%) HNC
13 1 (0.27%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.93%) SLA
2 7 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 107 (28.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (23.20%) Active Directory
3 69 (18.40%) Hyper-V
4 46 (12.27%) Docker
5 29 (7.73%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (4.53%) vSphere
7 8 (2.13%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.33%) Firmware
9 4 (1.07%) XenApp
10 3 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.80%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.53%) NFS
11 2 (0.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.53%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 64 (17.07%) Ansible
2 46 (12.27%) Kubernetes
3 38 (10.13%) Puppet
3 38 (10.13%) SCCM
4 27 (7.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (5.87%) vCenter Server
6 17 (4.53%) EMC NetWorker
6 17 (4.53%) Nagios
7 8 (2.13%) ZABBIX
8 5 (1.33%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Clustering
9 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.53%) Grafana
10 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.53%) Terraform
11 1 (0.27%) CASB
11 1 (0.27%) Kibana
11 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 150 (40.00%) VMware
2 104 (27.73%) Microsoft
3 58 (15.47%) Red Hat
4 44 (11.73%) Cisco
5 34 (9.07%) Veeam
6 19 (5.07%) Citrix
6 19 (5.07%) SolarWinds
7 17 (4.53%) EMC
8 12 (3.20%) Brocade
9 11 (2.93%) Aruba
9 11 (2.93%) IBM
9 11 (2.93%) Meraki
10 10 (2.67%) HP
10 10 (2.67%) NetApp
11 5 (1.33%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.07%) Oracle
12 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
13 3 (0.80%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.80%) Dell
14 2 (0.53%) F5